Educational Resources & Tech Tools 05/02/2014

• Definition Of Digital Citzenship
  tags: 21st century skills digital citizenship education TeachThought
  
• Introduction to the 21st Century Fluencies – Fluency21
  • The 21st Century Fluencies are comprised of six main areas: Solution Fluency, Information Fluency, Creativity Fluency, Media Fluency, Collaboration Fluency, and Global Digital Citizenship. The main focus of these fluencies is to help instill in today's students a set of unconscious skills to help them survive and thrive in the 21st century and beyond.
    
• Fluency Poster "Cheat Sheet" by Delia Jenkins – Fluency21
  tags: 21st century skills collaboration media creativity digital citizenship differentiation

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Educational Resources & Tech Tools 02/15/2014

• What Machines Can’t Do - NYTimes.com
  Heart will matter more than head as we move forward in the digital age.
  tags: nytimes creativity digital
  • In a world of online distractions, the person who can maintain a long obedience toward a single goal, and who can filter out what is irrelevant to that goal, will obviously have enormous worth.
  • Unable to compete when it comes to calculation, the best workers will come with heart in hand
• Math Games - 5 websites that make math fun!
  tags: math math games
• Annenberg Learner - Teacher Professional Development
  This site is full of lesson plans, interactives, and professional development for teachers of all grades and disciplines.
  tags: science history social studies english spanish math art pd lesson plans
• ZOOM . activities . sci | PBS Kids
  tags: science experiments activities STEM
• Science for Teens | Grades 6 - 8 | Kids.gov
  tags: science
• Science for Kids
  Science resources for IPS.
  tags: chemistry science web2.0
• http://whenintime.com/
  When in Time is a timeline web application.
  tags: timeline web2.0 timelines history social studies
• Beautiful web-based timeline software
  tags: timeline web2.0 timelines history social studies
• Nurturing Collaboration: 5 Strategies | Edutopia
  • "You need to insert four comments on your partner's doc -- two things that are working well and two questions that will help the author to improve the piece."
  • • Four things that are working well
    • Three specific ideas for improvement
    • Two specific questions for the author 
    • One source that you recommend for the author
  • At the elementary level when students are providing feedback with one another, I like to use “Two Stars and a Wish”.
• Google Science Fair 2014
  tags: google GAFE science science fair STEM

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Educational Resources & Tech Tools 02/11/2014

• Creativity Becomes an Academic Discipline - NYTimes.com
  tags: creativity teaching education
  • Traditional academic disciplines still matter, but as content knowledge evolves at lightning speed, educators are talking more and more about “process skills,” strategies to reframe challenges and extrapolate and transform information, and to accept and deal with ambiguity.
  • Creative studies is popping up on course lists and as a credential.
• Rocket- Instructables
  tags: maker rockets STEM
• Recycle old magazines into colorful stomp rockets
  tags: maker rockets STEM

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